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From The prudent housewife (1800).
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From The prudent housewife (1800), printed page 65, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21524634
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Ingredients
- an ounce of salt petre
- a pound of coarse sugar
- a pound of common salt
- a pint of bay salt
- two pounds of corn sugar
Method
- You must take a hind quarter of mutton, cut it like a.
- ham ;
- take an ounce of salt petre, a pound of coarse sugar, a pound of common salt;, mix them, and rub your hara, lay it in a hollow tray with the skin downwards, baste it every day for a fortnight, then roll it in saw dust, and hang it in the weod-smoke a fortnight;
- then boil it, and hang it in a dry place, and cut it out in rashers It does not eat well boiled, but eats finely broiled, 7b 7imke Bacon, I'ake a side of pork,, then take off all ijie inside lat, lay it on a long -board or dresser, tl.at the blood may run away, rub it well w'ilh good salt on both sides, let it lie ihus a day;
- then lake a pint of bay salt, a quarler ol a jjound of salt petre, beat them fine, two pounds of corn sugar, and a quarter of a peck of common salt.
- Lay \ iuir pork in something that will hold the pickle, and rub it well with the above ingredieius.
- Lay the skinny side downwards, and baste it every day with, the pickle tin a fortnight;
- then hang itiu w'ood-sniMkc as you do beef, and a.fterwarcls hang it In a dry place, but not hot.
- \bu are to observe, that all hams and bacon should hang Hoar from every thing, and not against a wall.
- Observe to wdpe off all tlie old salt before you put it into this pickle, and never keep bacon or hams in a hot kiicla-n, or in a room where the sun comes.
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